"17 m. In the final, Olympic champion Évora set the standard with a first jump of 17.54 m, Idowu also started well with a jump of 17.51 m. Giralt and Sands moved into third and fourth with jumps around the 17.2 m mark. Évora led the competition until round three, where Idowu produced a personal best and world-leading jump of 17.73 m to take the top spot. A large jump by Alexis Copello followed, but he was given the red flag, indicating a foul. Sands' season's best jump of 17.32 m moved him into the third medal spot, but it"
"= qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best Key: PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump The men's high jump event at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany was held between 19 August and 21 August 2009. The 2008 Olympic gold and silver medallists, Andrey Silnov and Germaine Mason, did not compete at the Championships and the reigning world champion, Donald Thomas had been in poor form that season. The Russian duo, Yaroslav Rybakov and world leader Ivan Ukhov, were the"
"of contribution on forum chats. Alwyn Jones (athlete) Alwyn Jones (born 28 February 1985) is an Australian triple jumper. Jones was born in Australia. He attended Victoria University. He finished fifth at the 2004 World Junior Championships, won the bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and finished eighth at the 2006 World Cup. Jones is also a nine-time national champion. His personal best is 16.83 metres, achieved when he won the 2009 Australian Championships in Brisbane. He his spare time, Alwyn collects his thoughts through the medium of poetry, and enjoys participating in fantasy football, where he is often"
"2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump The men's high jump event at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany was held between 19 August and 21 August 2009. The 2008 Olympic gold and silver medallists, Andrey Silnov and Germaine Mason, did not compete at the Championships and the reigning world champion, Donald Thomas had been in poor form that season. The Russian duo, Yaroslav Rybakov and world leader Ivan Ukhov, were the most favoured athletes. The 2005 world champion Yuriy Krymarenko and Olympic medallist Kyriakos Ioannou had performed sub-par prior to the competition. Andrey Tereshin, Jaroslav Bába"
"Ben Maher Benjamin Richard ""Ben"" Maher MBE (born 30 January 1983 in Enfield) is a British show jumper. He represented Britain at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2009 European Championships, Windsor, and 2012 London Olympics. He won the team jumping gold at the London Olympics with Team GB, their first team jumping gold medal for 60 years. He also won bronze at the 2011 Europeans Championships in Madrid, Spain. He has won many international Grand Prixs including the Olympia Grand Prix, Hickstead King George V Gold Cup at Hickstead, FEI World Cup Qualifier Grand Prix at Wellington with various rides. He"
"2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump The Women's Triple Jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics will be held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 17. Cuban Yargelis Savigne had registered nine of the ten farthest jumps pre-championships and was seen as a strong favourite. The twice world gold medallist Tatyana Lebedeva and world-leader Nadezhda Alekhina were also considered possible medallists. The reigning Olympic champion, Françoise Mbango, had failed to perform well in the buildup to the championships and did not start the competition. In the qualifying rounds, Asian record holder Xie Limei"
"third on the all-time British triple jump lists after Ashia Hansen and Aldama. Laura Samuel Laura Samuel (born 19 February 1991) is a British track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump. She has a personal best of for the event, which ranks her third among British women. She was the silver medallist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and also the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Born in Leicester, she became involved in athletics while at primary school becoming interested after local coaches visited the pupils there. She joined the Leicester Coritanian Athletics Club and later joined"
"Phillips Idowu Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu, (born 30 December 1978) is a British athlete who specialises in the triple jump. He is a former World Outdoor and Indoor, European Outdoor and Indoor, and Commonwealth triple jump champion. He was also a silver medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Idowu is a member of the London-based Belgrave Harriers athletics club and has been for much of his career. Despite his successes, Idowu has at times been accused of inconsistency and of failing to fulfil his potential, including his disappointing failure at the London Olympics 2012. His championship record since 2008, especially his"
"2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump The women's high jump event at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany was held between 18 August and 20 August 2009. Reigning champion Blanka Vlašić had spent the 2007 and 2008 seasons largely unbeaten, but high-profile losses in the Olympic high jump final and the 2008 IAAF Golden League final spelled the end for her lengthy winning streak. The rise of Germany's Ariane Friedrich in the 2009 season had seen her take the European Indoor title and make the world-leading jump of 2.06 m. Having beaten Vlašić in three of"
"again taking fourth place at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics she missed the finals at the 2007 and 2009 World Championships as well as the final of 2008 Summer Olympics. On 5 February 2010, nearly ten years after her initial application, she finally gained British citizenship and a year later, now competing as a Great Britain representative, took fifth-place finish at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. On 9 March 2012, at the age of 39 years, Aldama became the IAAF World Indoor Champion in Triple Jump, in Istanbul, Turkey, the second oldest athlete ever to achieve the feat."
"Alwyn Jones (athlete) Alwyn Jones (born 28 February 1985) is an Australian triple jumper. Jones was born in Australia. He attended Victoria University. He finished fifth at the 2004 World Junior Championships, won the bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and finished eighth at the 2006 World Cup. Jones is also a nine-time national champion. His personal best is 16.83 metres, achieved when he won the 2009 Australian Championships in Brisbane. He his spare time, Alwyn collects his thoughts through the medium of poetry, and enjoys participating in fantasy football, where he is often jeered due to his lack"
"right to left. At the UK Championships in Birmingham in July Ennis won the high jump and 100 metres hurdles. In August, Ennis won the gold medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin with a personal best points total of 6,731, 238 points ahead of silver medallist Jennifer Oeser of Germany and Poland's Kamila Chudzik. She led the competition from the first event and posted a personal best of 14.14 metres in the shot put, whilst her first day points total of 4,124 points was the third-best first-day heptathlon score ever, behind world record holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee and European"
"Great Britain. Colin won two World Championship golds and an Olympic Silver. American sprinter Inger Miller is the daughter of Jamaican Olympic legend Lennox Miller. Inger won two World Championship golds. Italian long jumper Fiona May has Jamaican parentage. Fiona won two World Championship golds. Derrick Atkins won 100 m silver at the 2007 World Championships. He is the cousin of former world record holder Asafa Powell, and his parents are originally from Jamaica. Great Britain's 2009 world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis's father was born in St Catherine, Jamaica and moved to Britain when he was 13. The mother of"
"Laura Samuel Laura Samuel (born 19 February 1991) is a British track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump. She has a personal best of for the event, which ranks her third among British women. She was the silver medallist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and also the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Born in Leicester, she became involved in athletics while at primary school becoming interested after local coaches visited the pupils there. She joined the Leicester Coritanian Athletics Club and later joined Loughborough University's athletics team, when she began studying there. Initially Samuel focused on"
"May 2018) and second best world mark of the year at 17.74 metres. On 9 March 2008, Évora placed third in the triple jump competition at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, in Valencia, by jumping 17.27 metres. On 21 August 2008, he edged out Phillips Idowu of Great Britain and Leevan Sands of the Bahamas to take an Olympic gold medal with a 17.67 metres jump. Évora set the world leading mark at the Grande Prêmio Brasil Caixa in May 2009, winning with 17.66 m. He was pleased with the jump (his third best performance ever) and stated his"
"is in Lievin on 5 March 2010, and his best legal outdoor jump is in Avila on 17 July 2011. For comparison, the world record is . Alexis Copello Alexis Copello (born August 12, 1985) is a Cuban triple jumper who since 2017 competes internationally for Azerbaijan. He has a (legal) personal best jump of . He is a World Championship medalist, having won the bronze at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. He is 1.85 metres (6 ft 1 in) tall and weighs 80 kilograms (176 lbs). His international career began with success at regional level: he won a"
"main events at the World Championships include: 100m sprint, Long jump, High jump, Shot put and the 400m endurance race. The 2009 men's event, held at the Battersea athletics track in London, was dominated by three South Africans, Willem Muller, Jeremy Gallop and brother Michael Gallop, who won in all 5 events. Four world records were broken with only the 100m record standing from the previous year. In the women's event Charlotte Willis from Great Britton won 3 events, and four new world records were set in part due to the introduction of 'child's' suits for the women instead of"
"World Championships. Qualification: Qualifying Performance 1.95 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final. Key: Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump The women's high jump event at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany was held between 18 August and 20 August 2009. Reigning champion Blanka Vlašić had spent the 2007 and 2008 seasons largely unbeaten, but high-profile losses in the Olympic high jump final and the 2008 IAAF Golden League final spelled the end for"
"Paraskevi Papachristou Paraskevi ""Voula"" Papachristou ( ; born 17 April 1989) is a Greek triple jumper and long jumper. She won two gold medals at the European Athletics U23 Championships and represented Greece at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. She was removed from the Greek team for the 2012 London Olympics by the Greek Olympic Committee after making an insensitive comment online in 2011. She participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics' final in Rio de Janeiro, taking 8th place. Born in Athens, Papachristou won the bronze medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships. She competed in the 2009 European"
"2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump The men's long jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20 and 22 August. The season had seen a number of athletes performing to a high level before the championships, with reigning World and Olympic champion Irving Saladino. The other athlete to jump that distance was Dwight Phillips, who is the world leader with a jump of 8.74 meters. Dwight Phillips took bronze in 2007 and is looking for his first win over Irving Saladino at an international level. Italy's Andrew Howe, the"
"years and ordered to complete 50 hours community service after being caught drink driving by police. Both his parents are Nigerian. Phillips Idowu Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu, (born 30 December 1978) is a British athlete who specialises in the triple jump. He is a former World Outdoor and Indoor, European Outdoor and Indoor, and Commonwealth triple jump champion. He was also a silver medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Idowu is a member of the London-based Belgrave Harriers athletics club and has been for much of his career. Despite his successes, Idowu has at times been accused of inconsistency and of"
"<br> Hugo Chila Hugo Dionisio Chila Ayoví (born 22 July 1987 in Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas) is an Ecuadorian long jumper and triple jumper. He set a personal best and Ecuadorian record of 16.70 m in the triple jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. He bettered this at the 2009 Bolivarian Games, jumping 17.03 m for the gold and a Games record. He also set a national record in the long jump competition at the 2009 Games, but his mark of 8.16 m was only enough for silver as Víctor Castillo produced a Championship record for the"
"Katja Demut Katja Demut (born 21 December 1983) is a German track and field athlete who specialises in the triple jump. She has represented Germany internationally at the European Athletics Indoor Championships and at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Her personal best of 14.57 metres outdoors and 14.47 m indoors are the German records for the event. Born in Schmölln, she began competing in the event as a teenager, representing the TuS Jena club. Her first international appearance came at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics, where she jumping in the qualifying rounds. She returned to the competition"
"m or more since he jumped in a competition in Birmingham in 2003. On May 14, 2012, Olsson ultimately declared his intentions to retire from professional triple jump competitions. Christian currently lives in Monaco with his girlfriend Gordana Bosanac. <br> Christian Olsson Christian Olsson (born 25 January 1980 in Gothenburg) is a former Swedish athlete competing in high jump and triple jump. He won an Olympic gold medal, one gold and one silver medal in the World Championships and two gold medals in the European Championships as well as a further two golds in the World Indoor championships. He also"
"2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump The women's long jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 21 and 23 August. In the final, Olympic champion Maurren Higa Maggi took the early lead as the first jumper in the competition. After three fouls, the second legal jump of the competition took Brittney Reese into the lead with a 6.92m. Tatyana Lebedeva's second round 6.97m put her into the lead for six jumps until Reese could take her third jump. Her season best tying settled the competition. No athlete improved over"
"Portugal at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics Portugal was represented at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, held in Berlin from August 15 to August 23, with a delegation of 30 athletes (17 men and 13 women). This delegation matched the record for the biggest national team at the World Championships in Athletics, set at Athens 1997. The team included reigning Olympic and 2007 world triple jump champion Nelson Évora, reigning world indoor champion in the long jump Naide Gomes, and Olympic and World Championships medalist Rui Silva. Veteran race walker and 2005 bronze medalist Susana Feitor accomplished her"
"to become the first British diver to win three World Championship medals. Jack Laugher, with his bronze medal in both the Men's 3 m springboard event, and Men's 3 m synchronized springboard with Chris Mears, became the first British diver to win two World championship medals at one edition, later equalled by Daley. With a gold and three bronze medals, the 2015 edition was by some margin the most successful World Championships in diving for Great Britain since the championships began. With Great Britain's first gold medal in Men's high diving, Gary Hunt brought the Great Britain overall tally to"
"in 2015 - after the birth of her daughter - with George Pomaski as a trainer. At the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland, she won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Amsterdam. At the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she took the eighth place. Paraskevi Papachristou Paraskevi ""Voula"" Papachristou ( ; born 17 April 1989) is a Greek triple jumper and long jumper. She won two gold medals at the European Athletics U23 Championships and represented Greece at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. She was removed from the Greek team for the 2012 London Olympics"
"result of 4.65m. As a result, for the first time in history of World Championships in Athletics, two Polish athletes took gold and silver medal in the same event. Poland is 16th nation to win gold and silver in the same event in the history of World Championships in Athletics. The previous 15 nations were: Canada, China, Cuba, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Jamaica, Kenya, Romania, Russia, Spain, United States and also Soviet Union and East Germany. In women's triple jump final, Yargelis Savigne won the gold and Mabel Gay took second place. Both of the Cuban athletes did not"
"the 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon scoring 6126 points, after Jessica Ennis of Great Britain won gold scoring 6731 points, Jennifer Oeser of Germany with silver scoring 6493 points and Kamila Chudzik of Poland with bronze scoring 6471 points. Sharon Day-Monroe won the silver scoring 6006 points. Sharon Day-Monroe won the heptathlon scoring 6058 points. Sharon Day-Monroe, placed 18th in the 2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon scoring 6043 points, after Tatyana Chernova of Russia won gold with (6880 points), Jessica Ennis of Great Britain with silver (6751 points) and Jennifer Oeser of Germany with"
"world-leading jump by 12 cm. Idowu went on to win the IAAF Golden League Bislett Games in June 2007 with a distance of 17.35 m. By July 2007 he was ranked the number three triple jumper in the world, a new career high. On 9 March 2008, Idowu won his first world title, taking the gold medal at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Valencia, Spain. His jump of 17.75 m also broke the British and Commonwealth Indoor record previously held by his compatriot and former adversary Jonathan Edwards, who presented him with his medal at the ceremony. Despite"
"Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper) Jonathan David Edwards, (born 10 May 1966) is a British former triple jumper. He is an Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European champion, and has held the world record in the event since 1995. Following his retirement as an athlete, Edwards has worked as a sports (primarily athletics) commentator and presenter for BBC television. Formerly a devout Christian, he also presented episodes of the BBC Christian worship programme ""Songs of Praise"", until he renounced his faith in 2007. In 2011 he was elected President of Wenlock Olympian Society following the death of its then President, Roy Rogers."
"by overall place Key: NR = National record, SB = Seasonal best, WL = World leading (in a given season) 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump The women's long jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 21 and 23 August. In the final, Olympic champion Maurren Higa Maggi took the early lead as the first jumper in the competition. After three fouls, the second legal jump of the competition took Brittney Reese into the lead with a 6.92m. Tatyana Lebedeva's second round 6.97m put her into the lead for"